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Last minute father’s day gift ideas

Posted at 9:09 AM, Jun 17, 2012
and last updated 2012-06-17 09:09:21-04

(WTVR) - If you're still looking for a last minute father's day gift, you may not need to look any further than your smart phone.

There are plenty of apps to combine your dad's love of technology with his favorite hobbies.

If your dad is a golf lover, Golf Shot is a gift in its own.

The GPS enabled app tracks more than 35,000 golf courses worldwide, comes with a handicap calculator and lets dad keep tabs of his performance.

If grilling is more of his game, Weber's on the grill app dubs itself as a mobile grilling companion.

Dad's smartphone gets access to more than 300 recipes, creates grocery lists for those recipes and has a grill guide and timer to make sure everything turns out just right.

For the baseball lover, the ballpark envi app has pictures and information about every current big league stadium.

And if your dad's a fixer upper or handy man, the iHandy carpenter app is a virtual toolkit, with 5 built in tools.